#kazimir.exe

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So yeah,, I did a thing. Top left is Kali, top middle is Nyx, and top right is supposed to be Kazimir

The two doofs on the bottom are Dust and Killer. Killer still drips liquid hate everywhere and his eyes are still leaky, I just chose not to add that in, that way the cracks would be easier to see

His face is cracked because he was actually hit by Ret's morningstar, back in his introduction blurb. Then Dust has a hole in his face because of Connie's waterbending move and how he got hit by part of it that was frozen. Their outfits are pretty similar to their original counterparts, but I haven't actually planned any of the specifics out yet, tbh ^^"

Individual face pics under the cut :P

Kali

Nyx/Lady Night

Kazimir

Riderverse Dust

Riderverse Killer

*an additional little note: y'know how Nyx and Kali look like they're wearing makeup? Although it seems like most people usually do that to help identify male vs female skeletons, I was thinking about that a bit earlier and I had a thought: War's a lady and she wasn't born with them, but yet, Kazimir's a boy, and he's got them

I figured that maybe it's a genetic thing. Females might be more likely to have them, but that doesn't mean that guys can't have them, too. In Kazimir's case, it's because he and Nyx are twins

Speaking of Kazimir, if you look closely at his ecto, you'll see little cyan specks in it. While Nyx is more like Nightmare, Kazimir actually got a little more of the corruption, hence why he's able to form tentacles when he gets upset

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Key points in Nightmare, Nyx, and Kazimir's lives:

Nightmare finds the twins' mom somewhere in the human world, riddled with negative emotions. Like a moth to a flame, he's drawn to her

He ends up taking her back with him, because he feeds off her negativity and enjoys trying to scare her. Not once does it work though. This woman doesn't fear him for even a single second, somehow

He's intrigued by this and tries even harder to be scary and get a reaction from her, still to no avail

A bunch of time passes, they fall in love, yada yada yada, you get the gist

Nyx and Kazimir are born

For a couple years, everything is great. They have this near perfect life and their own little family, Nightmare's stopped terrorizing innocent people and AUs as much, things are peaceful

Then when she doesn't come home one day, he goes looking for her and finds her dead somewhere with a huge injury that likely came from being impaled

It's implied that Shattered Dream did this to her, purely out of spite since he hates Nightmare

He goes into mourning and is left to raise the twins on his own. He becomes cold and distant to his staff, and everything that belonged to his now dead wife is locked away in a room, out of sight, out of mind

It's not long before he goes back to terrorizing people and AUs again, doing exactly what he was doing before

Consumed by grief, he takes his frustrations out on the people around him and bottles up his sadness and loneliness. It becomes forbidden to ever talk about her, because it's far too painful for him

The twins start growing up and becoming more independent. Nyx's first boyfriend? Not someone he was very fond of

Nyx begins her involvement with Killer, all while Kazimir is making googoo eyes at Dust in the background

Things are fine for a while, but then Killer begins attempting to seduce Nightmare. Night held his ground and stood firm as long as he could, but it'd been so long since someone made him feel loved or special that he just kinda,, caved

Nyx discovers what happened and after she threw Killer to the curb, she got into a huge fight with Nightmare. This led to her moving out and starting her rule as queen of another kingdom named "Regoria" (which in turn led to her meeting Connie)

It took a while, but they very awkwardly tried patching up their relationship. As it turns out, neither of them can stay upset with the other for very long

Nightmare recruits Kali. Kali pisses him off so bad that he basically tells Nyx to take her, since he doesn't wanna deal with her anymore. Nyx takes Kali back to her castle, and a little while later, Kali has made a full 180° and now follows the princess's every order

This is also around the time when 406 became pregnant and ran away with Cross. They went to Nyx for help, and she took them in for a short while

She had 406 and Cross go back with Dream, while 406's baby was adopted out to one of her staff

Kazimir breaks things off with Dust and now he's staying with Nyx in her castle. Kazimir may or may not already be eyeballing Val

Another interesting thing that seems unrelated at first glance: it's implied that Shattered Dream killed Nyx and Kazimir's mom. Years later when Othni's completely obsessed with the concept of getting to be in Connie's aura of positivity again, it's implied that he killed Shattered Dream. By the way he's talked about Nyx, he makes it sound like he's familiar with her, and even genuinely respects her, although he never really said why

It's almost as if he did some poking around, found out what happened to her mom, and then decided to take matters into his own hands, because Shattered hadn't yet gotten what Othni (and Nightmare, if he knew who killed his late wife) felt he deserved

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I'm unsure if this gives me Death vibes, Nightmare/Nyx/Kazimir vibes, yandere Othni vibes, or all three vibes at once

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Choose a Latin quote | StrawPoll.com

What's your opinion? Vote now: Veni, vidi, vici (“I came, I saw, I conquered”), Usque ad finem (“to the very end“), Familia supra omnia (“fa

Tiny disclaimer: there’s a lot of options here, and all the Latin might look a little confusing at first, but I did make sure to include the translations for everything ^^’

For context: it was briefly mentioned before (in that blurb I wrote where Ret got to meet Nyx) that Nyx was seen wearing a family crest. I figured it’d be kinda neat if the crest had a Latin quote as part of it, or if there was a portrait or something hanging somewhere in her castle that had the quote on it

I struggle to decide which one I like best because I’m also trying to take Kazimir and Nightmare into consideration, alongside Nightmare’s situation with his late wife and how his stance on things might’ve changed since the apple incident. Since this could be part of their family crest, it’d only make sense that it’s something that’d work for each of them, y’know?

Since there’s so many choices here, I enabled the multiple choice thing, so you can pick as many as you want XP

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Pick an introduction scenario | StrawPoll.com

What's your opinion? Vote now: As a baby, being cared for by Nightmare, Meeting Retribution, Meeting Conquest, Attempting to bond/have a hea

Another poll, because there’s a lot that I’m having trouble deciding, it seems

As it says in the poll description, I’d really like to introduce Kazimir at some point, but I have no idea what to do for that. I have a bunch of different ideas, but I legitimately have no idea which one would be the best way to introduce him, since they’d all show different sides of him

Like,, he can form tentacles like Nightmare, but only when he’s super upset, and to a degree, he even struggles to control them. That could be interesting to see, but only a couple of the options that are listed could possibly lead to it happening

Anyway though, gonna stop myself before I ramble too much ^^” you can pick as many as you want, if you end up having a hard time picking just one like me

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We know that Nyx once dated Killer. That's nothing new. But a fun fact (of sorts) for ya:

Kazimir was very much involved with Dust. I dunno if I'd say they were officially together or not, but they were fairly close and as intimate as you could expect, given Dust's mental and emotional condition. They could still be seeing each other on and off since Kazimir made if painfully obvious that he was in love with Dust (boi isn't good at hiding his feelings a lot of the time), but I don't think they're as close as they used to be, since Dust is best bros with Killer and probably did a lot of the same not-so-great stuff as him

Which,, y'know, would include lying and being involved with other people. Killer was sneaking around with both 406 and Nightmare, and also attempting to flirt with Kali, while he was with Nyx. Since Dust gets into a lot of trouble too, that could imply that he also made moves on 406 (and possibly Axe, who knows tbh) while Kazimir thought they were an item. It was never agreed upon that they were, but still

We saw a good amount of Nyx's power when she intimidated Killer (when he showed up uninvited at her castle), but she can't form actual tentacles like Nightmare has. Kazimir however, can. They only manifest when he's upset enough, so yeah. Just imagine the damage that could've been done when he found out what Dust was doing

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There's a very slight possibility that War might've worked for Nightmare around the time when Nyx and Kazimir were still pretty young

Like, she would've been a preteen, or in her super early teens, but she wouldn't have been any older than that. There's probably a timeline out there somewhere, where Nyx and Kazimir were still itty bitty little skeleton children while she was around

Which I think would've been adorable to see. Just,, her unconsciously trying to be their big sister, like she's done with every other child that she's met

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Kinda wanna write something to introduce Kazimir, but idk what kind of situation to stick him in

The original idea I had was him introducing himself to Connie, but because I'm thinking about it a little more, what about him finding out who what Dust had been doing behind his back? His reaction would be a lot different than Nyx's (when she found out Killer's dirty little secret), but depending on how upset he was, it could actually be more dangerous

Then some other options would be him going to Nyx for comfort and reassurance, since they're pretty close and she'd probably wanna throw down with Dust at some point for hurting her brother. I could also show him being his typical gremlin self, and maybe harassing his dad or his sister, too